HB770 requires that no employer shall pay an employee a wage at a rate less than the rate of an employee of the opposite sex.
The Mississippi State Senate passed HB770 on March 9, 2022 by a vote of 42 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the nays because equal pay for equal work is a liberal talking point and businesses should be paying their employees based on experience and performance or however they see fit. The government should not be telling businesses how they should be compensating their employees. That is done naturally by the free market.